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  • Japan: MHI Begins Testing of Large-Scale Wind Power Generation System

    24 January 2013

    In December Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) commenced test operation at its Yokohama Dockyard & Machinery Works of a large-scale wind power generation system that adopts a hydraulic drive train in place of the earlier gear-driven system. The test operation is a part of the project launched in September last year to develop a hydraulic […]

  • Octopus Energy Creates GBP 3 Billion Offshore Wind Fund

    17 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Octopus Energy’s generation arm has launched a dedicated fund with Japan’s Tokyo Gas to invest GBP 3 billion (approximately EUR 3.5 billion) in offshore wind globally by 2030. The fund, set up with a GBP 190 million (about EUR 217 million) cornerstone investment from Tokyo Gas, will invest in the development, construction, and operational stage […]

  • Swire Pacific’s Platform Supply Vessel Supporting Construction of Taiwanese Offshore Wind Farm

    17 August 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Swire Pacific Offshore’s platform supply vessel (PSV) Pacific Hornbill has been deployed on the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind project in Taiwan to support the ongoing construction activities. The vessel, which departed from the Port of Taichung to the project site on 16 August (according to the available AIS data), has been hired for […]

  • Iberdrola Entering South Korean Offshore Wind Market

    17 June 2021
    Business & Finance

    Spanish renewable energy giant Iberdrola has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with energy company GS Energy to cooperate on renewable energy projects in South Korea and other Asian regions. According to Iberdrola, the alliance will enhance the capacity of the two companies to seek out and develop more renewables projects, including onshore and offshore […]

  • Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Project Advances

    11 June 2014
    R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium behind the Fukushima Experimental Offshore Floating Wind Farm Project has completed  the construction of a three-column semi-submersible floater as part of the second phase of the project. The floater has been moored at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works. One 7MW floating wind turbine and subsea cables have also been […]

  • UK: Mitsubishi to Create More than 100 Jobs in Edinburgh

    11 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Japanese giant Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe Ltd (MPSE) confirmed its announcement on investment of up to £100 million in an engineering facility in Edinburgh and thus strengthening Scottish economy, by bringing over 100 new jobs, BBC informs. The facility will carry our research and development into offshore wind turbine technology. Despite the surprise of a […]

  • Hitachi Zosen, Naval Energies Enter New Level of Floating Wind Cooperation

    17 June 2020
    Business & Finance

    Hitachi Zosen and Naval Energies have signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) to extend their collaboration after working together on a floating wind technology feasibility study. Now, the partners plan to cooperate on other floating wind projects and to start defining their future industrial cooperation in more detail. The new agreement comes as a next […]

  • Japan’s First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm Starts Receiving Turbine Parts

    15 December 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    A ship carrying the first batch of wind turbine parts for the 140 MW Akita Noshiro, Japan’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, entered the Akita Port on Sunday, 12 December. SAL’s vessel, loaded with 11 wind turbine tower sections, departed from Taicang Port in China in early December, Akita Offshore Wind Corporation, the developer of […]

  • Ormazabal to Provide Switchgear for Japanese Floating Offshore Wind Project

    9 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology

    Ormazabal will provide CGMCOSMOS fully gas-insulated switchgear for the 7MW wind turbine generator system that comprises the second phase of the offshore floating project, undertaken by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on the Fukushima coast. The project started in 2012 with the installation of a 66kV […]

  • Wind Minds Sign Offshore Wind Deal with Korean Company

    1 July 2015
    Business & Finance

    Article update: Further details about the contract. Wind Minds have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korean company Doarm Engineering to develop offshore wind farms in South Korea, according to Hans Rijntalder, a renewable energy consultant and founder of Pondera Consult, one of four companies that form Wind Minds.  Rijntalder told Offshore WIND that the MoU arose […]

  • Marubeni Opens First Office in Scotland in Pursuit of Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen

    25 November 2022
    Business & Finance

    Marubeni Corporation, a Japan-based company operating globally, took a step forward in supporting Scotland in achieving net zero through the development of offshore wind farms and green hydrogen projects by opening its first office in the country. The premises are situated in Glasgow, where the corporation and its partners aim to establish a Green Energy […]

  • KEPCO and MUL Buy Into Moray East

    30 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc (KEPCO) and Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company Limited (MUL) have acquired stakes in the Moray East offshore wind project in Scotland.

  • Power X Forms Strategic Business Alliance with NYK Line

    2 February 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Japanese shipping company, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), has signed a memorandum of understanding with compatriot Power X, Inc. to set forth the terms of a strategic business alliance for the development and testing of Power X’s marine energy storage solutions (ESS), the Power ARK power transfer vessels, as well as electric vessels. The strategic […]

  • JERA Completes Acquisition of Belgium’s Leading Offshore Wind Developer

    27 July 2023
    Business & Finance, Industry

    JERA has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares of Parkwind NV from Belgium’s Virya Energy. The initial agreement between JERA Green, an affiliate of Japan’s JERA, and Virya Energy was signed in March this year. The transaction, which JERA said marks a significant milestone for the company and Parkwind and signals […]

  • SeaRoc Holds Marine Coordination Training in Taiwan

    29 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Training & Education

    SeaRoc Group has delivered the first formal marine coordination training in Taiwan to the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

  • G7 Ministers Vow to Accelerate Offshore Wind Deployment to Reach 150 GW by 2030

    17 April 2023
    Authorities

    The G7 (Group of Seven) Ministers of Climate, Energy and the Environment have pledged to speed up the buildout of renewable energy projects, including offshore and floating wind, and reaffirmed the seven countries’ commitments to their existing 2030 offshore wind targets, which together amount to 150 GW of capacity. The energy ministers of the G7 […]

  • NORCOWE’s Event Becoming Established Arena for Offshore Wind Branch

    26 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Science Meets Industry Bergen took place on Tuesday September 9. The event was organized by NORCOWE in collatoration with Bergen Council of Commerce and industry, and took place at Hotel Grand Terminus in the centre of Bergen.  With 80 participants, this event is becoming an established arena for the offshore wind branch. People from the industry and research […]

  • Japanese Utility Buys Into Formosa I Offshore Wind Farm

    28 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Japanese utility JERA has entered into an agreement with Macquarie Capital and Swancor to acquire a combined 32.5% equity interest in the Formosa 1 offshore wind power project located off the north-western coast of Taiwan.

  • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries aiming the overseas offshore wind power market (Japan)

    10 August 2010
    Business & Finance

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is intensifying its efforts to expand its offshore wind power business to overseas. MHI recently reached… (shimbun) [mappress] Source: shimbun, August 10, 2010;

  • Japan’s First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm Takes Final Shape

    5 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    All wind turbines have been installed at the 140 MW Akita Noshiro wind farm offshore Akita Prefecture, Japan. Akita Noshiro comprises a total of 33 Vestas V117-4.2 MW wind turbines. 20 of the units were installed off Noshiro Port, and the remaining 13 offshore Akita Port. The commissioning of the installed turbines is ongoing and […]

  • Smulders Sends Off First Akita-Noshiro Transition Pieces

    6 November 2020
    Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has shipped off the first four transition pieces built for Akita-Noshiro, Japan’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm. The transition pieces are now en route from the Smulders yard in Hoboken, Belgium to Sif Group in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Smulders is building 33 transition pieces for the 139 MW wind farm. Sif signed the final […]

  • Japanese SoftBank to Fund Ibaraki OWF

    4 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    SB Energy Corp., a subsidiary of Japanese SoftBank Corp. focused on renewable energy development, intends to invest in an offshore wind farm to be built off the Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. The wind farm is being developed by Japanese wind energy company Wind Power Energy Co., which proposes an initial 90MW offshore wind farm to be […]

  • Top News of the Week Dec 15 – 21, 2014

    21 December 2014

    Belgium to Decide on Wind Energy Storing Island in 2015 Belgium will have their say in early 2015 about a project that would see excess energy stored and used later when needed. SKWID Sinks Off Japan MODEC has confirmed that a Floating Wind & Current Hybrid Power Generation System (SKWID) constructed by MODEC sank into […]

  • JFE to Build Japan’s First Factory Solely Dedicated to Offshore Wind Foundations

    21 July 2021
    Business & Finance

    JFE Engineering Corporation has decided to invest JPY 40 billion (approx. EUR 309 million) in building a monopile foundation manufacturing facility, for which the company says will be the country’s first factory dedicated to monopile fabrication. The monopile factory will be constructed on the premises of JFE Steel West Japan Works Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture, […]

  • First Turbine Up at Japan’s First Commercial-Scale Offshore Wind Farm

    5 July 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    The first of the total of 33 Vestas 4.2 MW wind turbines has been installed at the Akita Noshiro offshore wind farm in Japan, the country’s first commercial-size, fixed-bottom wind project. After the installation vessel Seajacks Zaratan finished placing all the 33 monopile foundations at their respective locations is September last year, the same vessel […]

  • Saitec Sends SATH Floating Platform to France

    25 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    Spanish floating wind platform developer Saitec Offshore Technologies has been awarded three weeks at IFREMER’s wave basin facilities in France to further validate and develop its SATH technology due to funding from the European network Marinet2.